Arturo Ripstein Movies

The Lecumberri Penitentiary was one of the most notorious prisons in 20th-century Mexico, known for the notorious inmates who were held there and the...

"La Nueva Jerusalem" is a small community of believers lead by Papá Basilio and Mamá Dorita. They're waiting for the second coming of...

The story of two women, a mother and her daughter, who during the Cristero War set traps for government soldiers passing by their house, using...

A woman seeks help from one of her bigamous husband's killers to transport his corpse back to her home.

Set in Mexico City, Mentiras Piadosas is the doomed love story of Clara and Israel. She is a health inspector and he is an herb merchant, who is...

A profile and history of film director Akira Kurosawa.

Mama has four daughters in their late teens. some of them might be more interested in careers than husbands, but she's hoping she'll find a highly...

After her husband leaves her for a younger woman, the helping of her caring, but cynical godmother, is not enough to prevent Julia from plotting her...

Perla, a prostitute and the star in a miserable cabaret in the docks, falls in love with a sailor without knowing that he is her brother. Tomasa,...

The legendary life of Mexican singer Lucha Reyes is the basis of this fictionalized biography ( or as director Arturo Ripstein puts it "an imaginary...

A married couple entrusts the care of their young son to a strange clown. The film focuses on the relationship between the clown and the child, to...

An erotic model has three lovers, one of them is the father of her child. Which of the three will be?

Two dark-comedy stories involving blackmail, murder and love triangles in Rio de Janeiro

A group of people, including Capulina and Viruta, head towards the city by train. A heavy storm interrupts their journey and now they must take a...

Friends of Luis Buñuel discuss the director while Buñuel mixes drinks and entertains friends in his home.

Homero Olmos, a famous television publicist known as "H.O." or "The Voice of Experience," is driving along a lonely road heading to Rio de Janeiro...

This documentary explores key moments in the life of writer Juan Rulfo, with artists such as Werner Herzog and Eduardo Galeano reflecting on his work.

In a seedy brothel, their frustrations parade: A poet who has never published, a revolutionary who came late to history, a provocative angel, a...

Thriller directed by Arturo Ripstein.